This e-book is dedicated to the study of real estate investments. Real estate accounts for approximately two-thirds of the national wealth of the United States and over 25% of the gross domestic product. Experts attribute about 25% of the worth of publicly traded corporations to their investments in real estate. Recent studies by the Census Bureau and other organizations have identified real estate as the largest holding for a large percentage of households in the U.S. Clearly, issues surrounding real estate investing are of considerable interest to many parties including individual investors, institutional investors and even corporations who own real estate as part of their operations. I believe that these and other parties will find the articles in this e-book to be notably useful in their real estate decision making.